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...The silver lining, in GS’s view, is that the banking sector is better equipped to deal with an office-price collapse than it was the home-price collapse before the global financial crisis: In our view,...
...First, the discounts on offer — barely 0.1 percentage points, or perhaps £10 a month on a £200,000 loan — are too small to change decision-making, particularly over the course of a short fixed rate period...
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...Selling the loans, sometimes at a discount, is a solution for some who have too much real estate on their books....
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...The index, which tracks the proportion of lenders reporting an increase in demand for home loans versus those reporting a decrease, rose to 35.9 in the first quarter, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly...
...“Macquarie wants Southern Water to go further and faster and to share learnings with its peers to ensure successes can be replicated nationwide,” it says....
...Last week the US Federal Housing Finance Agency presented its report on the future of the Federal Home Loan Banks....
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...Southwark has developed a scheme of loans and grants to provide incentives for private owners to rent out empty properties, but the programme remains small....
...Four large UK lenders are cutting mortgage rates for the second time in three weeks, as competition in the home loan market intensifies on the back of better than expected inflation data....
...loans soaring....
...“We don’t think this bounce in housing activity will persist,” said Oren Klachkin, financial market economist at Nationwide....
...Loan Bank and hasty reforms could produce many unintended consequences for the country’s financial system....
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